Quotes About Progress

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

The salvation of the young mind and the freeing of it from the noxious reactionary beliefs of their parents is one of the highest aims of the proletarian government.

This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.

Cuantas más demoliciones, mayor sensación de actividad municipal.

Don't call yourself a change, let the change manifest in you and people will call you change without asking them to

Life Obstacles are same with Stepping Stones. You stamp on them and stumble; they become Obstacles in your path. But when you step on them and succeed; they serve as your Stepping Stones.

Relationship is not all about starting but how it goes.

Use the time you voted for smoking to read. Changes will be on the walls of this world.

We have torn down the worst slums. The natural meeting-points for the lumpenproletariat have been eliminated, converted into pleasant, dull, clean blocks for dull, clean, adapted families. In the absence of ghettos for the losers, they gather around the centres of pride. If Harlem and its equivalents did not exist, they would gather outside the Rockefeller Center.

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.

It's never enough," he repeated, "but it is so much more than we had before. Without the Millennium project there would be no drugs, there would be no surgical equipment, there would be no way to operate the generator—I would be redundant most of the time. They say funding will continue, but someday it will stop, and when the funding stops, most likely everything we have done will be put to waste. I do not see how we are going to continue after they have left.

For it is better -- is it not? -- to attempt to change things slowly than not to strive for progress at all.

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

Medicine is like the slow raising of masonry," Rob said. "We are fortunate, in a lifetime, to be able to lay a single brick. If we can explain the disease, someone yet unborn may devise a cure.

Everybody acts like the future is so far away, when really every moment that passes is the future.

Don't you see? they cried. All we have to do is change.

And yet, in the words of Immanuel Kant: Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Layla draws on her electronic cigarette. This is what the future looks like, Scott thinks. We smoke technology now.

Without hope, there's no growth. Without growth, there is no life.

In the beginning we are all floating downstream. At some point we become aware that the currents are dragging us down and that we are no longer satisfied with the status quo of human

Believing in yourself is the last, not the first stage, in the evolution of success. The first stage is someone believes in you. The second stage is you believe in someone else. The final stage is you believe in you.